The Smart-binder SB-3 will produce finished booklets at speeds up to 7000 booklets/hour with constantly varying thickness, both wire stitched and ISG cold-glued. Separately printed covers can be fed automatically, on demand, under bar code control.

IBIS Smart-binder

The Smart-binder system using individual sheet folding before collection together on the saddle, which results in excellent lay-flat even up to 200 pages. The Smart-binder may be supplied in-line with a digital cut-sheet printer (SB-1 model) or in-line with a digitally-printed CF paper web (SB-2, 3, 4 or 5) at speeds up to 180 metres/min (590 feet/min). Alternatively, it may be supplied in off-line form using an integrated sheet pile feeder which can be loaded with sheets from multiple digital printers.

For the first time ever, both wire-stitched or glued books may now be produced from the same machine. In this way the Smart-binder provides a solution for multiple different book types and formats, with the option of a separately fed cover, sheet perforating, hole punching, loop stitching, etc.

Product Features

In-line connection with highest speed digital printers, or off-line operation from a high speed sheet feeder

Individual sheet folding for optimum thick-book quality

Cover and Insert sheet feeding Unique and patented ISG cold glue binding available in place of wire stitching

Optional perfect binding available (models SB-4 and 5)

Bar code tracking of all sheets and auto-rejection of bad books, to ensure integrity

Multiple cover or inserting feeding available-upgradable ‘in the field’ to SB-3 or SB-4

Smart-binder SB3

Dedicated high-quality saddle-stitching

'On-the-run' re-loading of cover sheets

Simplified easy-to-use folder and sheet collector

Multiple cover or inserting feeding available

Includes 'ISG' cold gluing module to produce both saddle-glued books and saddle-stitched books

Smart-binder SB-4 One-stop-shop

Saddle-stitched booklets

Saddle-bound ISG cold-glued booklets

Perfect bound books up to 60mm thick made from ISG-glued signatures using in-line PB-600 or PB-2000 perfect binder

In-line thick book trimming available

Smart-binder SB-5 One-stop-shop

Saddle-stitched booklets

Saddle-bound ISG cold-glued booklets

Perfect bound books up to 60mm thick made from loose sheet stacks using in-line PB-600 or PB-2000 perfect binder

In-line thick book trimming available

The Sprint-binder PB-600C and PB-2000C systems are designed to be fed from a stream of sheets directly from a cut-sheet printer. Optional in-line folding can reduce the sheet format size to the required finished book size, if needed. The sheets then enter the stacker where they are collected on top of each other to form loose book blocks. These book blocks are then rotated to the vertical and pushed automatically into the clamp of the single-clamp Sprint-binder PB-600 or the 4-clamp Sprint-binder PB-2000. Optional in-line book trimming is available after binding.